Nosirhoja Ubaidov

Nosirhoja Ubaidov, also known as Qori Nosir, was an Islamic fundamentalist preacher from Tajikistan. Ubaidov became a member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan in 1992, and he worked as a recruiter and agent for radical Islamists, convincing several college students to undergo radicalization and drop out of university. One of these men was Hussein Abdusamadov, who left college in 2004 to become an Islamist and drifter. In 2010, he fled to Moscow after the government began investigating his trips to Iran, and he was put on a wanted list in 2015. In July 2018, Ubaidov approved of Abdusamadov's Islamic State plot to attack Western tourist cyclists on the Dushanbe highway, saying that it would attract international media attention.